PT FILM FESTIVAL UPDATES

Update 9/21/25

JURY AWARDS ANNOUNCED

We had a wonderful time celebrating this year’s Jury Award winners at the Awards Party on September 20, 2025 at Vintage. We are pleased to share the winners in each category:

• Best Feature Documentary
  Come See Me in the Good Light
  Ryan White

• Best Feature Narrative
  Village Keeper
  Karen Chapman

• Best Short Documentary
  Tessitura
  Lydia Cornett & Brit Fryer

• Best Short Narrative
  Such a Pretty Girl
  Deborah Puette

• Best Local Short
  Style: A Seattle Basketball Story
  Bryan Tucker

• Jim Ewing Award (for first-time director of a feature film)
  Remaining Native
  Paige Bethmann

• Women & Film Award
  Kelli Garner

• Lifetime Achievement Award
  Tom Skerritt

The categories of Best Feature Documentary and Best Feature Narrative each receive cash prizes of $2,500. The winner of the Jim Ewing Award receives a $1,000 cash prize.

Update 9/19/25

Please note- Unfortunately, we are canceling the Friday FORUM - Stakes is High: How to Green Light Yourself and Make a Micro Budget Film scheduled for 1:00 PM PDT at the Pope Marine Building.
If you purchased an indiviual ticket for this Forum, you will receive a refund.
We apologize.

Update 9/17/25
Our Indoor Festival Lounge has moved from the Cotton Bldg. to the Corner of Water St. and Tayor St.

Update 9/16/25

HOOD CANAL BRIDGE CLOSURE INFORMATION!
Sunday through Thursday, Sept. 21-25, the SR 104 Hood Canal Bridge will close to all traffic each night at 8PM and reopen at 5:30AM the following morning for five consecutive nights. The closures are necessary to complete bridge repairs.

Update 9/3/25:

SPECIAL GUEST: KELLI GARNER JOINS PTFF 2025

THUMBSUCKER JOINS 2025 LINE-UP
PTFF is thrilled to welcome Kelli Garner to PTFF 2025. Let’s get to know her…
A California native, Kelli Garner made her film debut at age sixteen in director Mike Mills' short film Architecture of Reassurance. Her performance captured the attention of director Larry Clark who cast her in her first feature film, as the drug-addicted teen, Heather Swallers, in the controversial docudrama Bully.

Garner will bring Thumbsucker for us to enjoy at PTFF 2025. The film is a narrative film about a teenager in suburban Oregon, coping with his thumb-sucking problem, romance, and his diagnosis with ADHD and subsequent experience using Ritalin.

Please Note- We recently learned that Mena Suvari, previously slated to attend PTFF this year, will be unable to attend due to unforeseen circumstances. Kelli Garner joins Tom Skerrit to form a mighty Special Guest duo.